Spending Too Much Time Watching TV?

Abstract

A key question for media research has been to understand the way in which audiences respond to and use television, as well as its role in daily life. Favourites are often linked to the specific personalised practices of viewers which are the result of changes to the viewing landscape, caused by the development of time-shift, record-replay and digital technology. In some cases, these special texts cannot be fully divorced from the everyday practices and settings in which they are viewed. These technological developments have occurred against the backdrop of a range of wider social developments, such as the replacement of the nuclear family by a range of reconfigured relational and domestic structures.